[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#681790: Bug#681790: Bug#681790: Bug#681790: /usr/sbin/bacula-dir: fails to upgrade database when database is on a remote machine

[Alexander Golovko]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:00:54 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi Enrico!
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:35:07 +0200, AZ Imballaggi S.r.l. - Enrico
> Ghera wrote:
>> Il 18/07/2012 18:03, Luca Capello ha scritto:
>>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:18:44 +0200, Alexander Golovko wrote:
>>>> So, this is not a bug in package, but dbconfig-common habits.
>>>> Ofcourse, we should describe database upgrade habits in 
>>>> README.Debian
>>>> UPGRADE section.
>>> If you want to do that, then please go ahead, but strictly speaking 
>>> this
>>> is not something that belongs to Debian, but in upstream manual.  
>>> Debian
>>> provides a way to manage local and remote database, via 
>>> dbconfig-common.
>>> If the admin changes that, than she/he should *know* that automatic
>>> upgrades could fail (Debian can not assure all possible 
>>> configurations).
>>>
>>> Enrico, I am sorry for the bug, but I bet that having configured 
>>> the
>>> remote database via dbconfig-common (thus via `dpkg-reconfigure
>>> bacula-director-mysql`) would have resulted in a correct upgrade.
>> just to understand better (and avoid other useless bug reports):
>
> FTR, no bug report is useless IMHO: this one actually let you know 
> how
> the Bacula database configuration is managed.
>
>> everytime I modify my database settings I should run 
>> dpkg-reconfigure?
>> doing the work twice? (one for actual conf and one for dbconfig)
>> or I should run dpkg-reconfigure and it updates my conf as well?
>> or my brain is dead and I have not understood anything?
>
> The second option: since the database configuration is managed,
> centrally, by dbconfig-common, you should not touch it by hand, but 
> with
> dpkg-reconfigure.  Doing this should update:

But dbconfig-common author is not agree with you:

/etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-mysql.conf:
...
# any changes you make will be preserved, though your comments
# will be lost!  to change your settings you should edit this
# file and then run "dpkg-reconfigure bacula-director-mysql"
...


>
> 1) /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-mysql.conf
>
> 2) all the relevant files in /etc/bacula/
>
> Feel free to ask for more, if needed :-)
>
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca

-- 
with best regards,
Alexander Golovko
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